After September 11th happened, Graydon Carter famously quipped, I think its the end of the age of irony. After Romney slayed Obama last week, I unfamously quipped, Liberal bias in the media is dead, which marked the official end of journalists kissing the presidents ass.

Weve already seen Bill Maher say things such as, I gave Obama $1 million and from the looks of the debate, he spent it on weed! and Obama sure is smart, but Im not sure if Im gonna take his class next semester. Soon Maher is going to form his opinions based on sources other than the Democrats talking points.

Back in 2008 we had a press corps that was clearly in the tank for Obama.

The MSM will continue its liberal bias until it gets to the point when virtually no one is watching their networks, reading their newspapers or listening to their radio. Fox News continues to soar in the ratings while the left wing MSNBC and CNN audiences dwindle for a reason... people are sick of the bias and condescension.

The MSM fervently hopes for an Obama victory as they expect that in a second term Obama will muzzle Fox News as well as end talk radio and Internet blogs and thus bolster their audience putting them back in charge of shaping public opinion. What the MSM forgets is that even back in the Communist Iron Curtain days the truth still got out despite the repression of free speech and opinion, a propaganda driven media and even radio jamming.

The MSM will never change. They and their ilk must be defeated at the voting stations.
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The very types of people that go into the media are lightweights. Few if any have ever produced a useful product or service that benefits people in the real world. Their elitist little world is largely an abstract one of reporting on and criticizing what others do. Its like they never left the college campus and tidy theoretical academic world.

You’re absolutely right — the only way to defeat them is to vote out their misguided liberal heroes.

And I’ll add that when I watched the CBS reporters on 9/11 (CBS being the only network still broadcasting in NYC that day), when I saw them absolutely covered in dust and debris, not worried about their appearances, and speaking about people and the country from the heart, I thought that the current crop of journalists and the news media in general had finally grown up.

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